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Thomas Piketty: Quality of Life for Billions of People is at Stake

Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson

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A Brief History of Equality

The author of capital an ideology has written a short book on the history of equality. The main message that i'm trying to push in this new book is that, you know, i try to develop a sort of optimistic parspective. I try to show lok therete lots of terrible things in the world to day, and  in some dimensions in equality, as warson in recent decades. But if we take a very long run perspective, in fact, thee's been a long run movement. This is a movement that has never been esi, that has never was natural in any meaningful sense.

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